Month: March 2016
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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…
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Nostalgia Profiteering
So much debate about the new Ghostbusters trailer – to me it looks disappointing but apparently it’s sexist and misognyistic to say that or something? I have no problem with the sex of the cast, in fact I WANTED it to succeed but also dread the fact that if it fails it will probably doom…
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The Fluid Dynamics of Van Gogh
Vincent had a turbulent life, but it seems he depicted a reality of the universe that no-one could see with fluid turbulence, later described by mathematics and physics. Spook! Art leads science shocker. (via Jez Biggs)
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…
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RIP George Martin
You can take yer Beatles, I’ll always remember George Martin (and Maddalena Fagandini) as Ray Cathode! Telstar (the satellite not the Joe Meek song or the label) meets Take Five in Waltz in Time. Also the producer of Ludo by Ivor Cutler Trio, and he wasn’t half bad with his own compositions too:
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History of Rock
https://vimeo.com/158160346 348 rockstars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, 44 drummers, 1 mashup from IthacaAudio. Amazing stuff – the mashup sounds a little stretched in places, but the video just makes it amazing. (via PomDeter)